Psalms 45:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Your robes are full of the smell of all sorts of perfumes and spices; music from the king's ivory houses has made you glad.

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  • Song 1:3 : 3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.
  • John 19:39 : 39 And Nicodemus came (he who had first come to Jesus by night) with a roll of myrrh and aloes mixed, about a hundred pounds.
  • 2 Cor 2:14-16 : 14 But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him. 15 For we are a sweet perfume of Christ to God in those who are getting salvation and in those who are going to destruction; 16 To the one it is a perfume of death to death; to the other a perfume of life to life. And who is enough for such things?
  • Song 4:6 : 6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.
  • Matt 2:11 : 11 And they came into the house, and saw the young child with Mary, his mother; and falling down on their faces they gave him worship; and from their store they gave him offerings of gold, perfume, and spices.
  • John 14:2 : 2 In my Father's house are rooms enough; if it was not so, would I have said that I am going to make ready a place for you?
  • Song 1:13 : 13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.
  • Song 3:6 : 6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?
  • Heb 12:2 : 2 Having our eyes fixed on Jesus, the guide and end of our faith, who went through the pains of the cross, not caring for the shame, because of the joy which was before him, and who has now taken his place at the right hand of God's seat of power.
  • Song 4:13-14 : 13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard, 14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.
  • Song 5:1 : 1 I have come into my garden, my sister, my bride; to take my myrrh with my spice; my wax with my honey; my wine with my milk. Take meat, O friends; take wine, yes, be overcome with love.
  • Song 5:5 : 5 I got up to let my loved one in; and my hands were dropping with myrrh, and my fingers with liquid myrrh, on the lock of the door.
  • Song 5:13 : 13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.
  • Amos 3:15 : 15 And I will send destruction on the winter house with the summer house; the ivory houses will be falling down and the great houses will come to an end, says the Lord.
  • Exod 30:23-24 : 23 Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, 24 And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:
  • 1 Kgs 22:39 : 39 Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?
  • Ps 16:11 : 11 You will make clear to me the way of life; where you are joy is complete; in your right hand there are pleasures for ever and ever.
  • Ps 45:15 : 15 With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.
  • Ps 150:4 : 4 Give him praise with instruments of brass and in the dance: give him praise with horns and corded instruments.

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    9 Kings' daughters are among your noble women: on your right is the queen in gold of Ophir.

  • Ps 45:7
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    7 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil: and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head, lifting you high over all other kings.

  • Song 1:3-4
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    3 Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

    4 Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

  • Song 1:9-14
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    9 I have made a comparison of you, O my love, to a horse in Pharaoh's carriages.

    10 Your face is a delight with rings of hair, your neck with chains of jewels.

    11 We will make you chains of gold with ornaments of silver.

    12 While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

    13 As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.

    14 My love is to me as a branch of the cypress-tree in the vine-gardens of En-gedi.

  • Song 4:13-15
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    13 The produce of the garden is pomegranates; with all the best fruits, henna and spikenard,

    14 Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

    15 You are a fountain of gardens, a spring of living waters, and flowing waters from Lebanon.

  • Prov 7:16-17
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    16 My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

    17 I have made my bed sweet with perfumes and spices.

  • Ps 45:1-3
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    1 <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.> My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

    2 You are fairer than the children of men; grace is flowing through your lips; for this cause the blessing of God is with you for ever.

    3 Put on your sword, make it ready at your side, O strong chief, with your glory and power.

  • Ps 45:11-15
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    11 So will the king have a great desire for you, seeing how beautiful you are; because he is your lord, give him honour.

    12 And the daughters of Tyre will be there with an offering; those who have wealth among the people will be looking for your approval.

    13 In the great house the king's daughter is all shining: her clothing is worked with gold.

    14 She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

    15 With joy and rapture will they come; they will go into the king's house.

  • Ezek 23:40-41
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    40 And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.

    41 And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.

  • Heb 1:9
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    9 You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

  • Ezek 16:18
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    18 And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.

  • Song 3:6
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    6 Who is this coming out of the waste places like pillars of smoke, perfumed with sweet spices, with all the spices of the trader?

  • Ezek 16:12-14
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    12 And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.

    13 So you were made beautiful with gold and silver; and your clothing was of the best linen and silk and needlework; your food was the best meal and honey and oil: and you were very beautiful.

    14 You were so beautiful that the story of you went out into all nations; you were completely beautiful because of my glory which I had put on you, says the Lord.

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    2 It is like oil of great price on the head, flowing down over the face, even Aaron's face: coming down to the edge of his robe;

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    13 His face is as beds of spices, giving out perfumes of every sort; his lips like lilies, dropping liquid myrrh.

  • Song 4:10-11
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    10 How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!

    11 Your lips are dropping honey; honey and milk are under your tongue; and the smell of your clothing is like the smell of Lebanon.

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    8 Let your clothing be white at all times, and let not your head be without oil.

  • Song 7:5-6
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    5 Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.

    6 How beautiful and how sweet you are, O love, for delight.

  • Isa 57:9
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    9 And you went to Melech with oil and much perfume, and you sent your representatives far off, and went as low as the underworld.

  • Song 7:1
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    1 How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:

  • Song 3:11
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    11 Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.

  • Exod 35:8
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    8 And oil for the lights, and spices for the holy oil and for the sweet perfumes for burning.

  • Exod 25:6
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    6 Oil for the light, spices for the sweet-smelling oil, sweet perfumes for burning;

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    6 You will be full of camel-trains, even the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all from Sheba will come, with gold and spices, giving word of the great acts of the Lord.

  • Ps 30:11
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    11 By you my sorrow is turned into dancing; you have taken away my clothing of grief, and given me robes of joy;

  • Song 4:6-7
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    6 Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

    7 You are all fair, my love; there is no mark on you.

  • Job 40:10
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    10 See now the Great Beast, whom I made, even as I made you; he takes grass for food, like the ox.

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    35 And make from them a perfume, such as is made by the art of the perfume-maker, mixed with salt, and clean and holy.